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My guess is that it's because "Curie" is a lot easier for an English-speaker to type and pronounce than "Skłodowska". I don't even have one of those characters
by clock_tower 11y ago
My guess is that it's because "Curie" is a lot easier for an English-speaker to type and pronounce than "Skłodowska". I don't even have one of those characters on my keyboard -- I had to copy-paste from above.
- hartpuff 11y agoNot only that but people unfamiliar with Polish names would not necessarily assume Sklodowska is Polish anyway.